Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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repeat

/ɹɪˈpiːt/ verb, noun

Forms repeats repeating repeated repeatest repeatedst repeateth

  1. verb (transitive) To do or say again (and again). “The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.”
  2. verb (transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
  3. verb (intransitive) To happen again; recur. “A day like that has not yet repeated itself.”
  4. verb (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
  5. verb (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
  6. verb (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
  7. verb (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
  8. verb (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed. “Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.”
  9. noun An iteration; a repetition. “We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.”
  10. noun A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
  11. noun (medicine, pharmacy) A refill of a prescription.
  12. noun (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
  13. noun (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.

Synonyms

redo reoccur reiterate reprise rework see also Thesaurus:reiterate recrudesce recourse recur rehappen reiteration reoccurrence repetition ingeminate iterate restate retell duplicate reduplicate double replicate echo take over reprize recapitulate

Etymology

From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, from the prefix re- (“again”) + petō (“to attack, beseech”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. "I will repeat our former communication." Robynson (More's Utopia).
  2. verb To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [Obs.]
  3. noun The act of repeating; repetition.
  4. noun That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).

Etymology [F. répéter, L. repetere; pref. re- re- + petere to fall upon, attack. See Petition.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “repeat”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “repeat” (best matches first).

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